Dyeing apparatus.



PATENTED'MAR. s, 1908.

L. DESTREE.

DYBING APPARATUS.

APPLIUA'HON FILED AUG. 11. 1908.

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LOUIS DESTREE, OF HAREN, BELGIUM.

DYEING APPARATUS.

Original application led August 27, 1904, Serial No. 222,398.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented March 3, 1908.

Divided and this application filed August 11, 1906.

Serial No. 330,220.

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that l, Louis DEsTREE, a subject of the King of Belgium, residing at Haren, Belgium, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Dyeing Apparatus, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in apparatus for uniting skeins of yarn into a single band in order that the same may be dyed in a continuous and economical manner similar to that employed in the dyeing of piece-goods.

The Patent '$7,801,064 of October 3rd, 1905, of which this application is a division, fully describes various clips which may be employed in the practice of my invention and reference is accordingly had to said patent therefor.

In the accompanying drawings, which illustrate the preferred embodiment of my apparatus and also the different steps in the operation of uniting the skeins into a continuous band, Figure 1 represents a plan view oi the complete apparatus for uniting the skeins prior to their introduction into the dye-bath. Fig. 2 is a perspective view of a stick serving to receive the halves of the clips during the formation of the band of skeins. Figs. 3 and 4 show diagrammatically, two methods of carrying out' the operation of forming the bands. Fig. 5 is a detail view of the double hooks of the device shown in Fig. 1. Fig. 6 shows the completed hank of skeins. Fig. 7 is an elevation of one form of flat-clip which may be advantageously employed.

The formation of the said bands is effected in the following manner, and by means of the device shown in Fig. 1: This device comprises two rollers 1, 2, capable of turning in bearings 3, secured to the wall or support, preferably above the dyeing-bath. The upper roller 1 is provided with a crank 4. Over these two rollers pass endless belts 5 6, provided with double hooks 7, Fig. 5, or their equivalents, secured to the belts at suitable intervals for receiving the ends of thehollow, channel form-stick 8, of semicircular cross-section, on which can be placed any number of skeins to be dyed after the two halves 9 and 10 of the clip shown in Fig. 7 have been placed into the groove of the stick. (See Fig. 3.) The stick, with the skeins, being suspended on the hooks of the belts 5 and 6, one of the halves of the clip is lowered along the threads of the skeins until that half is at the bottom end of the skeins arranged on the stick 8. This series of skeins is then lowered to a suitable extent by turning the crank 4 or otherwise until it occupies the position a, Fig. 1, and a second stick 8, also containing two clip-halves and carrying a series of skeins, is suspended from the hooks 7 above the skeins a, as shown at l), Fig. 1. One half-clip of the upper stick is then lowered along the upper skeins l) (as previously for a) until it arrives at the lower end of the series l), where the two clip-halves are joined, one of the series a and the other of the series l, Figs. 3 and 4. lThe rollers 1 and 2 are again operated by the crank 4 to lower the series a and b, and a new series is suspended to the hooks and connected up in the same way. After each connection of two series of skeins, the stick 8 is withdrawn, as it is merely used for temporarily suspending the skeins.

The different series of skeins can be connected to each other by any suitable iiat form of clip.

The band or chain of skeins having been formed in the manner described, it can be drawn through the dyeing-bath as it is being formed, or the band can be rolled up on a roller 19, Fig. 6, whence it will be subsequently unwound for dyeing, as is generally done with fabrics.

This method of dyeing yarns previously formed into bands of any desired length and width, enables the work to be carried on very quickly, cheaply, and hygienically and to be carried out by ordinary workmen and requires less labor than dyeing according to the method hitherto employed.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim is:

1. The combination of two oppositely disposed lateral supports, a channeled skeinstick secured therebetween, and a skein-clip within said channel, the channel being of sufficient capacity to permit the skein-clip to lie therein without any portion thereof projecting beyond the peripheral line of said skein-stick, whereby the passage of the skein-stick and clip therein, through folds of fibrous materials is entirely unimpeded, substantially as described.

5 skein-stick of sufficient capacity to completely envelop said sl ein-clip without any portion thereof projecting beyond the peripheral line of the skein-stick, whereby the passage of the skein-stick and clip therein,

through folds of fibrous materials is entirely unimpeded, substantially as described.

3. A skein-stick provided with a longitudinally extending` channel of substantially uniform cross-section and of sufficient depth to intersect the axial line ofsaid skein-stick,

said channel extending throughout the greater portion of the length thereof, and said skein-stick having ends of reduced cross-section extending axially beyond the outermost limits of said channel and capable of engaging opposing lateral supports spaced a greater distance apart than the length of said channel, whereby the channeled portion of said skein-stick can be freely suspended intermediate said supports, substantially as described.

4. A skein-stick provided with a longitu` dinal channel of substantially uniform and U-shaped cross-section, extending throughout the greater portion of its length, andthe ends of said skein-stick being of reduced cross-section and extending beyond the outermost limits of said channel and capable of engaging opposing lateral supports spaced a greater distance apart than the length of said channel, whereby the channeled portion of said skein-stick can be freely suspended intermediate said supports, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses, this fourth day of July, 1906.

LOUIS DESTREE.

' Witnesses:

GREGORY PHELAN, MAURICE GERBEAULT. 

